Information adapted from Smartcopying
Some information about copyright.
From reading documentation on copyright, I have summarised some of my findings below, using the 10% rule:-
A simple definition of copyright is that it is rights in certain creative works, artistic works, music, sound recordings and films. Copyright owners can prevent others from reproducing or communicating their work without their permission.
Creative Commons
“The creative commons provides an alternative licensing system so that authors, musicians and other creators can grant rights to the public to use their work but still retain control over their copyright material. Schools can use Creative Commons resources such as music, film clips and photographs in their projects and teaching resources free of charge. (Smartcopying)
Creative Commons Licence Symbols
Attribution Only Licences are the easiest to use. These licences allow you to copy and enhance the source material and make it available to others as long as you attribute the creator.
Fair Dealings
“Fair dealings is one of the expectations to copyright infringement. The Copyright Act provides that copying a reasonable portion of a work for the purposes of research or study.... will be a fair dealing”. CQUniversity information on Fair Dealings.
What can a teacher do on a wiki or blog?
Making an Audio Book
You can record 10% of a book, however if the book is not commercially available you can narrate and record the whole book. A teacher can also upload onto the class blog under the Statutory Text and Artistic Licence. Correct acknowledgement of the original author needs to be included. Furthermore this type of copying onto a class blog needs to be password protected with restricted access to teachers and students. Educational purposes.
Recording a Broadcast
For educational purposes teachers are allowed to record off-air copies for eg documentary from National Geographic and can upload it to the class wiki. (Statutory Broadcast License). Correct acknowledgement of the author must be credited. However, if this documentary was put on the National Geographic website it would be best to link to the documentary on the website. Listening or viewing a program online is not a copyright activity.
Copying text from a Website or textbook
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The 10% text can be uploaded to a class wiki, correct acknowledgement and the wiki must be password protected with access only to teachers and students. Education purposes.
Note: if the textbook is not commercially available more of the text book can be copied. Students cannot copy an entire work under fair dealing unless it is not available for purchase. Work needs to be acknowledged – source material, copyright owner and author.
Uploading student work
Scanned drawings, text, video, all produced by the students.
If the work is original work by students there is not copyright implications. Teachers must be sure the work is original and has no third party components.
If all work is original it can be put on the class blog and can be ‘open’ to the public on the internet. However, all students must agree to this.
Free for Education
‘Free for Education’ material. Free for education material is material that is available for students to use without having to rely on fair dealing. (WITH FAIR DEALING – students cannot copy an entire work, students cannot rely on fair dealing when making works for competitions).
Advantages of Free for Education
No copying limits, no restrictions on access. – CREATIVE COMMONS
Creative Commons is ‘free for education’. Creative Commons are a set of licenses which creators attach to their work. All Creative Commons licences allow the material to be used for educational purposes. The copyright owner and author need to be credited for their work.
If Creative Commons can be used on an ‘open’ blog, a blog open to the public.
Basic ethics suggests that all materials used are appropriately referenced unless they belong to you (CQU Moodle)
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